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Re:Unit tests fail when run in Australia by cratermoon on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @09:04PM (#9338202)
There are countries that have changed which side of the International Date Line they claim. As recently at 2011 Somoa switched. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line

Now that is the sort of thing that drives programmers nuts.

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Re:Unit tests fail when run in Australia by shortoncash on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @09:55PM (#9338383)
I actually had to deal with this exact problem two days ago. I was baffled because the timezone was being listed as UTC+14, and that places like Kiribati crossed the date line. UTC+14 didn't exist until the date line was crossed.

I have an app where users are running it while crossing time zones. :-(

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